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flageolet
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Flageolet is an organ stop belonging to the flute group of flue pipes. It is usually found in 2-feet pitch, and more rarely 1-feet pitch. The tone is generally soft in character. Category:Organ stops Category:Flute type Organ stops
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flageolet \Flag"eo*let`\, n. [F. flageolet, dim. of OF. flaj?l (as if fr. a LL. flautio;us), of fla["u]te, flahute, F. fl?te. See Flute .] (Mus.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flute-like instrument, 1650s, from French flageolet , diminutive of Old French flajol , from Provençal flajol , which is of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) A type of small flute of the fipple family. 2 A type of kidney bean, common in France.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried [syn: haricot ] a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes [syn: treble recorder , shepherd's pipe ]
Usage examples of flageolet.
The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, aeoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks, 183,--cornopean, oboe, vox humana--61 pipes each.
There were vendors who shouted the wares they displayed in trays hung from their necks, externs who gabbled in rude tongues, and beggars who showed their sores, feigned to play flageolets and ophicleides, and pinched their children to make them weep.
Then the gathering of the vraic was a fete, and the lads and lasses footed it on the green or on the hard sand, to the chance flageolets of sportive seamen home from the war.
As soon as the sauce is cooked, add the madeira, the pieces of game, and the peas or flageolets.
From their corner came a medley of mellow sounds, the subdued chirps of the violins, the dull bourdon of the bass viol, the liquid gurgling of the flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a rasping stridulating of the snare drum.
Little Billee remembered there was such a person as Svengali in the world, and recalled his little flexible flageolet!
I have to record all the transfers of food from my stores to our outposts: the smoked salmon I shipped off to Washington, the flageolets I sent to Miami, the rosette and jambon de Paris I sent to Tokyo.
Wong Feng sat, sipping his kirsch, listening with absent ears to the wailings of a flageolet and drums, watching with idle, nonseeing eyes as the belly-dancers undulated teasingly before him.
There were vendors who shouted the wares they displayed in trays hung from their necks, externs who gabbled in rude tongues, and beggars who showed their sores, feigned to play flageolets and ophicleides, and pinched their children to make them weep.